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Gov. Gavin Newsom has a long relationship with Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, that dates back to a different era in San Francisco. [...]
The San Francisco district attorney said in an interview that she came up with the strategy after seeing federal agents repeatedly roughing up people in Los Angeles and Chicago. [...]
The sanctions are among the most significant measures that the United States has taken against the Russian energy sector since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. [...]
A recurring theme in policy circles over the last three decades has been that young people should blame their economic problems on older people. The idea is that rather than [...]
The Gaza, the one that existed on the morning of October 7 is gone, decimated by months of saturation bombing, shelling, bulldozing and controlled demolitions. All that was familiar when [...]
The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for the basic needs of its people? Such questions [...]
The most insidious privatization of the 21st century isn’t material—it’s moral. The right to define “goodness”, once born of collective struggle, has been seized by elites who trade in humanitarian [...]
If you’ve been following the federal courts’ scattershot decisions on Trump’s domestic troop movements, you may feel a bit spun around. One week democracy has a good day in some [...]